Portman cut herself as a teenager

The 28-year-old actress Natalie Portman has revealed playing a girl who died in 1995 gangster movie ‘Heat’ had a profound effect on her, resulting in her harming herself after an argument with her mother.

She told the Los Angeles Times newspaper: “Just as what you are feeling in your life affects your acting, what you act in definitely affects what you are feeling in your life.